Shannon Sandford Shannon Sandford i(19275281 works by)
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1 “On Their Own Terms” : Agency, Advocacy and Representation in Refugee Webcomics Shannon Sandford , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 48 no. 2 2024; (p. 194-208) 'In Australia, refugees remain on the margins of the public imaginary as subjects of aversion, erasure and suspicion. The unknowability of the foreign Other carries sharp political dimensions borne out in policies of strict border control and mandatory detention that have restricted public access to the voices and stories of refugees for over two decades. However, recent life narratives by refugees provide an antidote to this dominant discourse, by testifying to the traumatic precariousness of living in detention and confronting readers with unflinching visual displays of subjects often silenced and invisible. Safdar Ahmed’s Walkley Award–winning documentary webcomic, Villawood: Notes from an Immigration Detention Centre (2015), documents the lives, experiences and drawings of detainees in Sydney’s Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. This article reads Villawood as an example of the vital rhetorical and representative work done by webcomics to expose the violences of Australia’s border spaces and put the personal stories of detainees in dialogue with vast audiences online. By attending to the collaborative and mediated process of its construction, this article maps the critical literacies needed to interpret webcomics as testimony and considers what this medium might offer life narrative studies and the project of ethical witnessing more broadly.' (Publication abstract)
1 At Times Devastating, Always Powerful : New SBS Drama Safe Home Looks at Domestic Violence with Nuance, Integrity and Care Shannon Sandford , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 May 2023;
— Review of Safe Home Anna Barnes , Michelle Law , Jean Tong , 2023 series - publisher film/TV
1 A Thing or Two about Collisions Shannon Sandford , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 1 2022;
— Review of Ferocious Animals Luke Johnson , 2021 selected work short story 'Luke Johnson’s debut collection, Ferocious Animals, explores Australia and Australian national identity in all of its complexities and contradictions. It comprises thirteen short stories that embroil deeply flawed characters in tragic circumstances of loss and grief, sexual violence, neglect, abuse and infidelity while offering rare glimpses of compassion and tenderness. Through narration that activates the vulnerabilities of childhood, the turbulence of adolescence, and the dysfunction of adulthood, Johnson weaves compelling stories that explore innocence, indecency, and the generative spaces between, in prose that is equal parts delicate and brutal. At its heart, Ferocious Animals is a collection compiled under a framework of collisions, where the bright euphoria of human joy, connection, and intimacy meets and intersects with darker revelations of what horrors humans can inflict on one another.' 

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1 In the Quiet Night Shannon Sandford , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
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